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...preservation of Italian art. Six of the world's leading conservators of Italian painting (including John Brealey and David Bull, the head painting conservators at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Washington's National Gallery of Art), having inspected the frescoes at the foundation's behest, reported in an open letter that the "new freshness of the colors and the clarity of the forms on the Sistine ceiling, totally in keeping with 16th century Italian painting, affirm the full majesty and splendor of Michelangelo's creation...
...five or six minutes with three, sometimes four, cameras running simultaneously. His cinematographer, Ed Lachman, says it's "like performing free-form jazz." At Altman's elbow during last month's shooting was his friend and fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia), standing by at the insurance company's behest in case anything happened to Altman...
...some professors point to Kirby’s controversial decision at the end of last year to take control of a set of funds that individual departments had been rolling over annually as proof that centralization is not only happening at Summers’ behest...
...Rabbi's daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend; in Jerusalem. Meir has admitted to kidnapping the teenager at knifepoint and holding him overnight in an Arab village and later at the Rabbi's home, where he was allegedly beaten. But police suspect that it was done at the behest of his mother?something the family denies?who allegedly disapproved of the relationship. The Rabbi has not been implicated in the attack...
DIED. CHARLIE MUSE, 87, executive for baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates who developed the modern batting helmet; in Sun City Center, Fla. At the behest of Pirates general manager Branch Rickey, he (along with inventor Ralph Davia and designer Ed Crick) came up with a plastic model to protect the batter's head. Despite initial image concerns of players, the helmets were soon adopted by the Pirates and other major league clubs...